Improvement in medical compounds and apparatus for making the same



rl l I N. PETERS. PNOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D C din-iut hm @anni @time PETER IAHRN'EY, or. cIIIoAeo, ILLINOIS.

` Letters Patent No. 110,025, dated December 13, 1870. l

IMPROVEMENT `IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING THE SAME.

The Schedule referred to in lthese Letters 'Patent and making part of the lame.

To all whom `it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER FAHRNEY, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Percolator and Medical Gompound; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertaius to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which- The figure is a longitudinal vertical section of a series ol' percolatorsarrauged for the preparation of the medical compound.

My invention has for its object to provide auimproved medical compound combining the virtues of an alterative and cathartic in the form of a uid ex, tract, in the preparation of which I employr the following ingredients in about the proportions specified:

Peppermint, -two pounds; scullcap, one pound;-

'lurkey corn, one pound; vgentian, one pound; skunk cabbage-root, one pound; jalapa, threepounds; and

mandrake, five pounds.

These ingredients are thoroughly mixed andtriturated in any convenient vessel. i

They are then saturated with diluted alcohol and allowedA to macerate twenty-four hours.

The compound thus prepared is divided into three equal parts, and placed in the percolators 'A B vC, which areconstructed in the following manner:

Each percolator is composed of an upright cy1iu.

dri'cal vessel having a depressed bottom, D, and a false perforated bottom, E.

F are short vertical pipes entering each percolator through the main bottom and provided with astopcock or plug, G.

The percolators are arranged in line ,with each other, and at different heights,so that the contents of one shall be discharged into the other through siphons H, connecting at one end with the pipes F and discharging into the next vessel, overthe top, as shown. i

By this arrangement a portion of the contents of one part placed in each vessel, hot water is poured` gradually into the percolator A until a certain quantity charged with the compound is discharged into the percolator B, and from thence into the percolator C, from which it is Withdrawn into any suitable vessel placed under the short pipe F.

wIn supplying the hot water care should be exercised to keep the percolator A constantly full. When the compound or extract has been discharged from O it is boiled do'wu about one-half, sweetened with sugar or other substance, and after cooling is bottled for use Ifdesired, it may be flavored with fennel-seed, either oil or tincture.

I do not intend to confine myself: to the use of three percolators, as circumstances may require the use of a lesser or greater number.

Theyv need not, moreover, be used together, but may be used separately, although their combined use is preferable because most convenient.

Having thus described my invention,-

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The medical compound, composed of the ingre dients and prepared by the process, substantially as herein described.

2. The percolatora'each constructed as described, of 'the cylindrical vessel provided with the main bottom D, perforated false bottom E, short tube F, and siphon H, as herein set forth and shown, for the purpose specified.

3.v 'lhe medicine composed of the ingredients herein described, producing a combined 'alterative and cathartic in the form oi' afluid extract.

P. FAHRNEY.'

Witnesses:

E. A. ELLsWoR'rn, N. K. ELLswoIrrn. 

